Thesis (M.S.)--Youngstown State University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-81). Also available via the World Wide Web in PDF format.

Thesis (M.A.)--Creighton University, 2009. / Bluebrary (DSpace). Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 11, 2010). Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-53).

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The present thesis attempts a critical examination of the theory of war under Islamic and public international law, in an effort to demonstrate that jihad is a just, defensive, and exceptional form of warfare, geared to the maintenance of peace, and the protection of human rights for all people, whether those rights be exercised alone or in association with others, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religious belief. Through an examination of the norms of Islamic and public international law on armed conflict, this thesis argues that Islamic law, which governs the doctrine of jihad, is realistic and practical. Further, it made a great contribution to international humanitarian law more than a millennium before the codification of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, and eight centuries before the appearance of Hugo Grotius treatise "De jure belli ac pacis libri tres" in 1625. / Furthermore, this comparative study reveals that the word jihad might be one of the most misunderstood terms in the history of Islamic legal discourse. This analysis also claims that the division of the world into dar al-Islam (territory of Islam) and dar al-harb (territory of war), which is not predicated on a state of mutual hostility, was dictated by particular events, and was not imposed by scripture. Moreover, this discussion provides that Islamic humanitarian law regulates conduct during a jihad on the basis of certain humane principles, compatible with those upon which modern international conventions are based. Finally, this thesis concludes that there is a unique relationship between jihad and the notion of just war, a matter which qualifies it as the bellum justum of Islam.

Using a representative sample of the literature, both fiction and nonfiction, written by former American soldiers and correspondents between the years 1969 and 1981, this study analyzes the literary responses of those Americans most intimately involved in the Vietnam wax. Viewed collectively, these commentaries offer insights into the war that take us beyond its surface history and tend to refute the emerging apologist interpretation. Like the current historical analyses, their central concern is the war's morality and its connection to our national self-concept. They approach the issue, however, from the complex perspective of the writer/participant vividly recreating the actual experience on one level; probing, however unconsciously, its complex moral and metaphysical issues on another. Ultimately this literature is a powerful attack not only on the war in Vietnam but also on the American myths of innocence and mission which underlay it.Chapter one defines some of the major component of the cultural myths that shaped the idealized vision of America that these accounts bring into question. It defines the word myth in a cultural and historical context and examines three revealing works on American culture: R. W. B. Lewis' The American Adam, Ernest Lee Tuveson's Redeemer Nation, and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden. In a further attempt to elucidate this cultural mythology, chapter two examines Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.Analyzing content and form, chapters three, four, and five turn to the accounts written by the war's participants and observers. Using selected nonfiction accounts of the war that deal with the reactions of myriad participants and observers--Gloria Emerson's Winners and Losers, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Mark Baker's Nam, and Al Santoli's Everything We Had--chapter three defines and documents this war's wound. Chapter four analyzes two fictional accounts of the war, Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, and examines their relationship to the themes and techniques used by classic American writers to probe the underside of the American experience. Chapter five examines Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, which attempt to move beyond the war's disillusionment to a "wise accommodation."

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-151).

Thesis (B.A.Hons.) from the Department of History, University of Adelaide.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 2, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Youngstown State University, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves[53]-58).